The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-11
HERE AND THERE.

roDDers got more tnhn StoiVO'
Lumber Is selling in the Ceur d. Alcnc
mines at $40 per thousand feet.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily story OF
Europe TO America aud America to Europe.
Three thousand dollars per month is the
size OF the payroll of the Middetown asylum.
An Ice-making machine has been placed on
| the new man-of-war Boston, the first instance
Of the kind.
There is a storage reservoir for irrigation
building in Arizona which will hold l5,OOO
0O0, 900 gallons.
One of the sights at San Bernardino, Cal,
is three banana trees each bearing from six
to eight large punches.
The Oregon editors met, thrty-four In mum
Der, inYaklna City, on the 18Th, and formed
an editorial association.
1t is estimated that twenty-five thousand
Bostonians attended the band concert at
Point Of Pines on Sunday.
There will be 10000 sacks Of black mustard,
worth ~ cents per pound, go TO waste In Santa
Barbara county the present season
NCaifornia woman has sued for divorce
from her husband because for eigl. cen years
he has gone to bed with his boots oh.
The Grand Army of the Republic at Los
Angeles is TO take four carloads OF grapes to
St. Louis with 1t to give away to visitors
A French chemist has dsproved the idea
that liquid can not be solidited by pressure
alone by solidlfying the bichlorlde of carbon.
A Harvard professor ran through the streets
OF a Connecticut town the other day to catch
train and narrowly escaped being arrested as
lunatic.
The president of the Fat Mems club in
Hudson county, New Jersey, weighs All
pounds, and the committee Of reception IA
DIG pounds.
At Seymour, Ont, the other day man was
found dead In the woods, and beside the dead
body little child, too young to give any in
formation was playing
New Jerseys state prison holds s6) con
vlcts, Of whom 40 neither read nor write Sept.
| night school will be opened, TO be In session
two hours each evening.
A st. Johns, Mich, lady while walking
along the principal street there the other day
did not know,that sparrow sat on her hustle
enjoying the pleasant ride.
Miss Della Beck, the heaviest girl in Penn
sylvania, weighs 493 pounds and is as graceful
us the majority of girls Of one-fourth the
weight She lives at Apollo.
The people who are drowned while bathing
are generally swimmers overconfdent OF their
powers. 1t is the tlmld bsthcr who is scarce
ly ever caught going beyond his depth.
A new member OF congress describes himself
In the official directory Of the house In this
way: ~ am six feet tall, weigh 2lO pounds,
have soft auburn hair, and large blue eyes"
'cycler who has returned 10 his home In
Maplewood, N. j., after trip through Europe
and Africa on his tricycle. says he covered
twelve thousand miles at an expense OF 500
Gov. Knott, of Kentucky, at the expiration
OF his term of office, will settle in Louisville
and perhaps become journalist. He is said
to have his eye on the United States senate
now.
A station is to be established in st. Peters
burg for the examination OF food materials Of
fered for sale in the city. 1t will be under the
charge Of scientists appointed by the govern
ment
Caterplllars have appeared in Houston coun-
,y, Georgia, in large numbers. They have
done little damage as yet but VIII soon clear
up things II they are as aggressive as those OF
last season.
A North Carolina man has given the ladies'
aid society of his church five thousand
cigarettes TO be sold for the benevolent objects
of the society. Some people have queer ideas
Of doing good.
Among the passengers on the steamer UNI
brla, now three days out, are twenty-four
medical doctors, who come TO attend the In
ternatonal medical congress AT Washington
on September s.
From $1,000, 900 to 81, 900 900 worth Of goll
Is used annually in the shape of foil for gild-
ing lettering, edging of books, sign and orna-
mental painting, and dentistry gliding taking
the greater share.
The demand for lumber at San Diego must
be brisk when steam tugs are racing up the
coast to Mendocino towing sailing vessels
seven hundred miles against prevailing winds
for return cargoes.
The White mountains have come to be
worth over 81 900, 900 year to the people OF
New Hampshire In 1874 the tourist business
IN that section was scarcely $4,000. No ac-
count is taken of the gains OF the railroads in
this estimate.
The sales OF real estate at San Jose, Cal,
Aug. II amounted to s6,5o00Oo. The small
marginng practices OF the early days OF the
boom have entirely ceased, and gold coin
planked down by men OF means mainly from
outside sections, is now the rule.
Here is a postscript to girls letter, as
quoted by London Truth: ''When you write
next answer me In confidence two questions;
Can you lace your boots with your corsets ont
And can YOU put on your bonnet with your
bodice ONT want to know.-Mn